Happy Presidents Day

It is once again time to celebrate Presidents Day (even though the Federal holiday is actually still called Washington’s Birthday, and not Presidents Day after all). But it got us thinking, there must be some way that we can tie in cycling to a celebration of our first president (and to Abraham Lincoln as well, if we are using the popular definition of this holiday). Since the earliest successful commercial bicycles date to the 1860s, we can probably assume that George and Abe never got to try out our favorite 2-wheeled pasttime, notwithstanding this photographic evidence from the Performance HQ Halloween costume contest:

But that doesn’t mean that we can’t find some some connection to cycling. Take the world of pro cycling, where we find multiple-time US national champion George Hincapie on target to start the Tour de France for a record-tying 16th time (and who last year sported the most patriotic bike/kit imaginable):

Photo copyright Tim de Waele

And of course we can’t forget world road and time trial champion Abraham Olano of Spain (as long as we are making rather tenuous connections to Presidents Day, that is):

And if none of our roundabout reasoning really makes sense to you this Presidents Day, you can always just head over to our site to take advantage of our online-only Presidents Day sale! We’re sure that George and Abe would have wanted you to.